Wall box



`une 16, k1942.

E. G. HENRY WALL Box original Filed Aug. 11, 1959 Patented June 16, 1942 UNITED STATES TENT OFFICE WALL BOX Earle G. Henry, Chicago, Ill., assigner to Buckley f Music System, Inc., a corporation of Illinois 4 Claims.

This application is a division of my prior application for improvements in Wall boxes, filed August 1l, 1939, Serial No. 289,615, which has ripened into Patent No. 2,219,257, dated October 22, 1940.

The present invention relates to coin boxes employed in connection with selective electrical remote control for magazine-type phonographs or other musical instruments. These boxes must be opened frequently for the removal of coins and for the changing of the program. The oblect of the present invention is to produce a sirnple, rugged box which may stand upright on a counter or other horizontal support or be mounted on a vertical wall and which shall make it possible quickly and easily to detach the part of the box carrying the program and which shall be large enough to provide easy access to all of the devices housed within .the box.

A further object is to make it possible to lead the cable containing conductors that form part of the control circuit into the box in such a manner that the conductors cannot be short-circuited by a person desiring to play a record without depositing a coin.

The various features of novelty whereby my invention is characterized will hereinafter be pointed out'with particularity in the claims; but, for a full understanding of my invention and of its objects and advantages, reference may be had to the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a box embodying the present invention; Fig. 2 is a view of the box on a larger scale, partly in side elevation and partly in section; and Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

In the drawing there is illustrated a box separated vertically into two members. One of these members consists of a Vertical back wall I having narrow, vertical, forwardly-facing flanges 2 along its side and top edges, and a wide, shelf-like, forwardly-projecting flange 3 at the bottom. This latter flange serves as a supporting base for the box as a whole. The other member serves to form the front, side and top walls of the box, together with a supporting shelf on which may rest a receptacle to receive the coins deposited in the box. In the arrangement shown, this front or cover member comprises a vertical front wall 4, the upper part 5 of which slopes rearwardly, and there merges into a horizontal section 6, the rear marginal portion of which overlies and rests upon the top flange 2 `on the rear member when the box is closed. Integral with the iront and top walls of the front member are side walls 'I which are Wide enough to overlap the side flanges 2 and completely conceal the same. Extending rearwardly from the wall 4, and spanning the distance between the side walls, is a shelf-like bottom wall 8. This bottom wall does not extend rearwardly quite as far as do the side walls, so that it may bear against the front edges of the vertical flanges 2 when the two parts of the box are assembled, The shelf or wall 8 may, if desired, rest upon the wall or shelf 3 which it overlaps but, at least, lies close to the latter.

In the arrangement shown, the top flange 2 is provided with a pair of holes 9 extending through the same, and the top wall member 6 carries a pair of downwardly-extending pins Ill that are adapted to enter the holes 9 when the two parts of the box are assembled. Likewise, the wall or shelf 3 is provided with a hole II into which a pin I2, projecting downwardly from the bottom wall 8 extends when the two box members are brought together. It will be seen that withvthe pins I0 and I2 positioned in their respective holes, the two members of the box are locked together against relativeV movements except in the vertical direction; the opening of the box being accomplished by lifting the front member so as to carry the pins clear of their holes, and then moving it forwardly. The assembly of the two members is accomplished by reversing these steps, thereby hooking, as it were, the front member upon the rear member.

The two members of the box may be locked together against relative vertical movements in any suitable way. In the arrangement shown, there extends through and is fixed in .the top wall 6 a lock device I4 having on the under side a radially-projecting linger I5 which is adapted to be swung underneath a thickened part I6 of the top ange 2 to prevent the front box member from being lifted. The lock is provided with a suitable removable key Il for turning the finger or dog I5.

The box may be mounted on a vertical wall by fastening the rear wall of the box to the latter.

On the other hand, the box may be set upright box may enter through the back Wall and thus be concealed and also protected against tampering. When the box is mounted on a bar or counter, it is preferable that the joint between the armor on the cable and the box can be sealed in such a manner that no access can be had to the conductors by unauthorized persons. I therefore punch or drill a hole I9 through the shelf or base 3 and cut away the rear portion of the shelf or wall 8 to provide a large notch or bay I8 that leaves the top of the underlying part of the shelf 3 around the hole I9 exposed from the front edge of the member 3 rearwardly. Thus, while the cable may enter through the bottom of the box in front of the rearmost edge of the bottom wall 8, it in no way interferes with the opening and closing of the box. At the same time the conductors may be effectively shielded against tampering by employing any of the usual expedients for securing an armored cable to a wall through a metal-surrounded hole in which the cable passes.

While I have illustrated and described with particularity only a single preferred form of' my invention, I do not desireV to be limited to the exact structural details thus illustrated and described; but intend to Coverall forms and arrangements which come within the definitions of my invention constituting the appended claims.

Iclaim:

1. A wall box comprising a rear member having at the bottom a wide, forwardly-projecting ange and at the top a second forwardly-projecting flange, each flange having a hole therethrough, a front member provided with side and top and bottom walls, and downwardly-projecting pins on said top and bottom walls in positions that enable the pins to enter the holes in the anges of the rear member when the top and bottom walls of the front member are positioned over the said top and bottom. flanges, respectively, a large section of the bottom Wall of the front section being narrower than the remainder to leave the top of a large portion of said bottom flange uncovered and permit a cable or the like to be threaded through the same.

2. A coin box comprising a rear member having at the bottom a wide, forwardly-projecting ange and at the top a second, narrow, forwardly-projecting flange, a front member having top, side and bottom walls, the top wall and the bottom wall of the front member overlying the top and bottom anges, respectively, of the rear member, means to secure said members together, said bottom flange having therein an opening completely surrounded by the material of that flange, and the bottom wall of the front member having a deep bay extending forwardly from the rear edge and exposing said opening.

3. A two-piece coin box closed on all sides and composed of a rear member having at the bottom a Wide, forwardly-projecting ange and at the topV and sides narrow,"forwardly-projecting flanges, a frontA member having top and side walls overlapping said narrowflanges andhaving also a wide bottomwall overlying said wide flange and abutting at its rear edge against said narrow side flanges, and means to secure said memberstogether.

4. A coin box comprising a rear member'having at the bottom a wide, forwardly-projecting flange and at the top and sides narrow forwardly-projecting fianges, a frontV member having top and side walls overlapping said narrow flanges and having also a wide bottom wall overlying' apart from its frontv edge and lying within the area'of the said bay;

.EARLE G. HENRY. 

